In April 2016, the Cabinet of the Solomon Islands Government endorsed the establishment of the Ocean12 National Steering Committee (comprising the twelve Ministries relevant to ocean management and use) with the mandate to progress Integrated Ocean Governance for the Solomon Islands. The Ocean12 set up a technical working group tasked with implementing the priority aspects of Integrated Ocean Governance including marine spatial planning and the development of an ocean policy. One of their tasks was to identify Solomon Islands’ special and/or unique marine areas (SUMAs) as part of this process.
Ceccarelli DM, Wini-Simeon L, Sullivan J, Wendt H, Vave-Karamui A, Masu R, Nicolay-Grosse Hokamp A, Fernandes L (2018) Biophysically special, unique marine areas of the Solomon Islands. MACBIO (GIZ, IUCN, SPREP), Suva.
